November 25, 2016

Over one million young Malays not registered as voters, Umno info chief says

Umno believes more than one million young Malays have yet to register as voters, said party information chief Tan Sri Annuar Musa.

He said the Umno grassroots machinery attempted to trace them but in vain because many of them were working outside their constituencies.

“We have to surmount many challenges but Umno will persevere. The important thing is to create awareness among those who have yet to register,” he said in an interview with Bernama at his office ahead of the 2016 Umno General Assembly scheduled for next week.

Annuar said the awareness was important because politics was a strength of the Malays.

“We must realise that the Malays do not have economic or other strengths except political strength because we are large in number … but the large number is now divided and, besides, we have people not registered as voters.

“As such, the Malays must accept it if we are to lose our only strength,” he said.

Annuar also said that Umno had identified hundreds of thousands of party members who had yet to register as voters.